Bug#362028: Found in lenny too

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Tue Jun 30 16:42:11 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 04:42:50PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> The simple fix is to call the BLKFLSBUF ioctl on any cached file
> descriptor open on the disk device after writing to the partition
> device. The attached patch (to be installed in
> debian/patches/cache_coherency.diff, with the obvious additional entry
> at the end of debian/patches/00list) does this.

Hi Colin,

You forgot to attach it.

> I haven't yet tested whether GRUB 2 suffers from the same problem, but
> will do so.

Please do!

Thanks

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."





More information about the Pkg-grub-devel mailing list